Taylorcraft F-19 Sportsman

The Taylorcraft Model F-19 Sportsman is a two-seat cabin monoplane, the first new product of the reformed Taylorcraft Aviation company and an updated version of the old Taylorcraft B. The fuselage is a fabric-covered welded steel tube frame and the wing is fabric-covered with a wooden spar, on conventional tailwheel landing gear with a tractor-mounted 100 horsepower Continental O-200 engine. A new company formed in 1968 mainly to support the thousands of Taylorcraft aeroplanes in the field geared up to build it in 1973, and it gave better performance than the Model B through its extra power. Production continued until early 1980, when the builder switched to the higher-powered F-21. It follows the Model 19, a development of the BC-12D that Taylorcraft had offered earlier.